Healthy Schools Partnership Challenge
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Nature takes back the tarmac
St Sebastian’s R.C. Primary school is a diverse, inner city
school in Salford. The school has limited outdoor space,
with only a tarmac playground and no greenspace.
Sow the City partnered with the school, and support from
Salford CVS allowed us to build a new food growing garden
in the school playground including raised beds for fruits and
vegetables, seating and a composting area. This brilliant
new greenspace hosts weekly sessions, where children
learn all about growing, composting, healthy eating and
wildlife.
School staff received Sow the City training in fruit and
vegetable growing and facilitate ongoing sessions with
pupils. Since working on the project, a number of children
and staff have begun to grow their own vegetables at
home. The project has helped to raise the profile of
healthy eating in the school.
Sow the City have now secured funding through the Healthy
Schools Partnership Challenge for 2019-20. We are
currently working alongside Lewis St. Primary School in
Eccles to create a new food growing garden in their
school grounds, and to improve a woodland area for safe
learning and play.
If you are interested in developing food growing facilities
and sessions in your school, please get in touch.
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Amanda Donoghue, Headteacher
St. Sebastian’s R.C. Primary School.
The children have thoroughly
enjoyed the project and have
benefited emotionally and socially.
[they] have tried vegetables that
they hadn’t tried before and have
a much better understanding of
healthy eating. [Sow the City’s]
enthusiasm about their work has
transmitted to the children which
has contributed largely to the
success of the project.
Working alongside St
Sebastian R.C. Primary School
in Salford, Sow the City created
a new food growing space to
engage pupils and encourage
healthy eating. The new garden
provides valuable greenspace
for the school, and a place to
learn, have fun and relax.
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